On Monday 28 January 2013 21:46:27 Stas Malyshev wrote: > > I understand that there's a tendency to use OO as > a neat way to namespace global functions and autoload them, but that's > not how it is supposed to work.
I've seen that sentiment against using static methods several times now, and it always falls short of mentioning the third ingredient it brings to the table: inheritance. In our internal development we often use static-method-only classes, converting stuff previously required and global in that namespace-like-with- autoload fashion, and most of the time this _additionally_ permits us to refactor some conditional spaghetti mess into a small-set-of-subclasses inheritance setup that makes the "fundamental" conditions stand out a lot more clearly than sprinkling conditionals all over the place. To my thinking, using just classes and static methods is absolutely fine OO, simply considering each class to be a singleton object I do not need to instantiate at all. Regarding the discussion at hand (that $this thing) I wasn't even aware of the old behaviour, and factoring common code in our small-set-of-subclasses approach was the #1 reason to switch to PHP 5.4 some month ago, so that we could use traits for that. best regards Patrick -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
